Summer 2020

Contents:

Our summer 2020 issue of 64 Parishes hits the road, following Christie Matherne on a road trip to Louisiana off the interstate and tailing Liz Skilton and her students as they collect personal histories of Hurricane Harvey from a mobile museum. Elizabeth C. Neidenbach debuts our series Split Press: Media Outlets in Black and White with a look at the nineteenth-century refugee crisis that more than doubled New Orleans’s population, and James Karst rounds out our features with a possible explanation for Buddy Bolden’s career-ending illness.

The issue also includes:

• Rien Fertel introducing Emma Wilson Emery, Louisiana’s nearly-forgotten first poet laureate
• Lucie Monk Carter chowing down at gas stations that offer culinary treats
• Artist Hannah Chalew’s attempts to address and offer solutions to the problems of the Anthropocene
• John Wirt delving into the Baton Rouge roots of radio staple “Judy in Disguise”

Plus stories by our partners at the Louisiana Art & Science Museum, The Historic New Orleans Collection, Shreveport Regional Arts Council, the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame, and the R.W. Norton Art Gallery.

The current issue of 64 Parishes is available at retail outlets across Louisiana or can be ordered through the LEH for $5.95 plus shipping. In stock back issues are also available for $6.95. To order email rambin@leh.org or call 1.800.909.7990 or 504.523.4352 ext. 110.